Resent-Message-Id: Resent-Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 13:28:59 -0500 (EST) Resent-From: Andrew B Stellman Resent-To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu Subject: Re: Debugger To: roo+@cmu.edu (Andrew B Stellman) Date: Fri, 11 Dec 92 12:34:57 EST From: Stephen Turnbull Sender: turnbull AT ecolan DOT sbs DOT ohio-state DOT edu I've been reading this list for about 8 months now, and about every six weeks a bunch of new fans comes on and says, hey, DJGPP is great but where's the source-level debugger? If you want a debugger, port GDB or whatever yourself. It's not going to be easy: GDB apparently uses the strategy of watching from another process---difficult to do under MSDOS. But it should be possible under DesqView, say. DJGPP is a *port* of GCC. DJ has already gone far beyond the call of duty; lots of commercial products get far worse support than DJ gives. As I well know, he even suffers fools gladly (he puts up with my occasional inanity, anyway). Developing an appropriate multitasking interface to support GDB is way out of the scope of support for DJGPP. Any volunteers? The alternative is to get yourself a Unix with the full GCC environment for development, then do the port using DJGPP. -- Stephen Turnbull The Ohio State University, Department of Economics 410 Arps Hall, 1945 N. High St., Columbus, OH 43210-1172 USA Phone: (614) 292-0654 Fax: ...-3906 Email: turnbull DOT 1 AT osu DOT edu